Top-Box Storage

[imaniguana]

What have you stored in your top-box storage so far?

 

[timcosco]

Hee, hee... this is a great post! Lesseee here...

Right Side (Utility Side):
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First Aid Kit
Jumper Cables
Space Blankets
Maglight
Tow Strap (big, fat 4" wide)
Thin Leather Gloves
Insulated Leather Gloves
300 Watt Power Inverter
Zip Ties
The Tire Jack Stuff

Left Side (Cooler Side):
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Beer & Ice!

 

[ygmn]

Old tennis shoes
Tie down straps of all sizes.
Quick detailer and some Micro fiber towels in a baggy
Air compressor
Raincoat
Steel toe boots
3 Trailer hitches receivers with balls
hitch propeller

 

[Chief]

One side:

Flashlight
First aid kit
Tie down straps
Jumper cables
Road flares
Small tool box (screw drivers, hammer, duct tape, electrical tape)
My Chevy bowtie receiver hitch over no one wants

Other side:

Empty (future home for beer, soda, a bottle of red for the wife, and ice)

 

[MrFish]

Oh man ... lessee if I can remember ...

Drivers side (unlocked):
5 or 6 bottles of water
Space blankets
Fire extinguisher
Crappy air compressor

Passenger side (locked):
16' jumper cables
20' tow strap
Toolbox
Trailer harness
Jack stuff
Portable CB radio

In the bed (locked):
2gal water jug
12v marine battery
El-Cheapo emergency kit

 

[Guest User]

i love the cooler idea for the top boxes, hahahahah...

has anyone actually tried it yet, or am i just the only one that hasnt (hehe)...

but really, does it work/leak or does the ice stay in tact?

 

[Chief]

Honest - it works, and drains are built in to the bottom so the ice will just melt off and drain out. Pretty darn cool! (GM has marketed them as coolers)

 

[Transformer]

Left side...

Rope
Rope
Jumper Cables
Rope
Rain Pancho
Tow Chain
2" ball for towing
More Rope
Tie Downs (bungies, sinch straps, rope)
Rags
probably more rope....

Left Side...

case of 1.5 ltr. bottles of water
Jack stuff
Beer & Ice
Mostly water (wish I had this 20 yers ago)

 

[02_2500avalanche]

tie downs for the dirt bikes, dirt bike gloves, goggles, oil for the bikes, chain lube

 

[WS6Y2K]

Right side
Jack
CB
hitch ball
tie down straps
blue shop towels
fishing rod

Left
first aid kit
working gloves
wrench set
socket set
pull over jacket
tackle fishing box
new fishing reel
artif. fish bait


I am always ready to pull over and do some fishing

 

[shafman1]

I still have all my straps and tie-downs, flashlight, and my trailer hitch in a bag. (My Silverado didn't have storage bins). Right now I have jumper cables, a blanket, work gloves, flannel shirt, two ice scrapers, and umbrella, and ski-type gloves (for colder weather) stored in them. They will definitely switch over as coolers when I go fishing.

 

[dreimer]

I have one of those emergency kits, and the wiring harness in there. For sure they will see some ice and cold refreshing beverages in the summer....

 

[burkhartmg]

What is the widest object that will fit in the Top-Box Storage?  I'm looking to buy a Kelly Stove for camping, and I'm not with my truck right now.  The stove is perfect circle and tall, but I need to know how wide of a circle will fit in the tool box?

 

[Joelg1980]

They are pretty shallow. I can't imagine that they are any wider than 15". But they are deep, and long. hehehehe

 

[burkhartmg]

They are pretty shallow. I can't imagine that they are any wider than 15". But they are deep, and long. hehehehe

I'm sorry... I said "wide", but I was referring to the narrowest part of the tool box.  Kelly Kettles are about 11 inches tall, but the diameters range from 5.5 inches to 7.3 inches.  The tool boxes are certainly tall enough to stand an 11 inch kettle in them, but what's the largest diameter that will fit?

 

[ygmn]

Not much... 5" maybe?

 

[burkhartmg]

Not much... 5" maybe?

So, even the smallest, at 5.5", is too big to fit in the box, then, huh...?  [sigh]

 

[bestsuv]

Driver side saddle bag
1. gas station type window cleaner w/ squeegee (not stolen)
2. spare set wipers
3. one wiper arm
4. two snow brushes extendable
5. spray on window deicer
6. two bottles of water
7. belts, main & a/c also nice gearwrench set for changing them

Passanger side saddle bag
1. a lot of different trailer wiring adaptors
2. different balls and wrenches to change them
3. around 150 ft of rope
4. several ratcheting and pull tight tie downs lost count
5. anti freeze
6. window wash
7. a jack some where in the bottom

 

[burkhartmg]

Heck, LOTSA stuff!  Ropes, emergency supplies (aluminum blankets, aluminum sleeping bags, long-storage food, water), cook stove and pans, air bed, crank shortwave radio, flashlights, jumper cables, ice scraper, flares, duct tape, pole to hang clothes in back seat from left and right ceiling handles, and so many other things!

 

[D2april]

I use to keep a porta john in mine.  Since I go camping a lot.  I kept one of those chairs that is a toilet seat in mine.